ERICA acuminata. 
DESCRIPTIO, 
Antherje muticae, inclusae. Flores fasciculati, sub- 
terminales. Pedunculi breves. Corolla sub-cylindrica, 
ore arctata, pollicaris, purpurea 5 laciniis ovatis, revo¬ 
lutis. Folia quaterna, trigona, retorta, acuminata, lu¬ 
cida, supra plana, subtus sulcata. Caulis fruticosus, pe¬ 
dalis, ramossissimus. Rami flexuosi, filiformes. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow in 
bunches, nearly terminal. Footstalks short. Blossom 
nearly cylindrical, narrowed at the mouth, an inch long, 
and purple. Segments of the border are egg-shaped, 
and rolled back. Leaves by fours, three-sided, rolled 
back, sharp-pointed, and shining, flat on their upper 
surface, and furrowed beneath. Stem shrubby, a foot 
high, very branching. The branches are flexuose, and 
thread-shaped, 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from July till October. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A leaf shown from the under side, magnified 
2. The em pal ement magnified. 
3. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
